Posted Mommy, My Font Hurts to Grids
Don't strain your eyeballs while they involuntarily roll to the back of your brain, but Helvetica has insinuated itself into my Saturday morning bake-a-thon and here's the reason why. Enjoy this painfully cute little blog entry while you're salivating. I...
Posted Pretty Distraction Before Morning Meeting to Grids
Sigh. Some people.... Jessica Hische is on my sh*t list this am for being so bloody talented. See her Daily Drop Cap: An Illustrative Initial Every Day for a little pick-me-up and to, as she would say "beautify" your blog...
Posted Best Books Ever! (Part 6!) to Grids
As promised, compelling submissions from artists and design aficionado friends of SPD... who probably spend a good portion of their incomes on books that ought to make our list. Inspiration from some unique sources follow....
Posted Best! Books! Ever! (Part 4!) to Grids
C'mon Creative Geniuses: Ostensibly we didn't rise to greatness on the sheer force of our good looks! Admit you've sourced all kinds of books for visual advice to help you dazzle, inspire, and bend-to-your-will your lunk-head editors. Did I say...
Posted I-phone App Designer to Job Board
Rodale is looking for a young designer to take on the project of designing the Women's Health Hot Body Yoga App for the iPhone. We are looking for a talented visual designer, with a great eye for branding, and style....
Posted Wilco as Design Resource to Grids
I find the rock band Wilco's poster collection a handy resource for some of the most elegant, witty graphic fine-artists working today. Jeff Tweedy and Wilco, including Uncle Tupelo and the whole constellation of side-project bands associated with them, have...
Posted Mini Modernist Book List to Grids
Fellow design book fetishists: One assumes you fancy yourself a taste maker in all that you do, so your home reflects your sensibilities as an arbiter of all that is clever, creative and hip. But add a baby and sh*t...
Posted Sucked Me Right In to What Are You Looking At?
Combining three of my many passions this afternoon, collectible mag design-tchotchke searches online, rearranging the library in my home studio and browsing Amazon.com for retardedly expensive art books to add to my untouched wish list, I was delighted and inspired...
Posted Killing Time in Cuba to What Are You Looking At?
On yet another overcast, crappy New York workday, when I should be focused on the September fashion photo edit, pulling layouts together, and periodically getting up to flex some managerial muscles in the small of my back, I find myself...
Posted I WANT YOU. YEAH YOU, SEXY VARMINT to What Are You Looking At?
I've been lover of the natural world for as long as I can recall. I mean that sincerely. I've fondled plenty a baby duck, I chose a rural home next to a reservoir, we have Mascoot Farm like, right next...